Education's a help to any man.

What I am trying to get at is this, that in some way or other we're running more to brains and less to hard work than our forefathers did." Mr.Wood was beating on the table with his forefinger while he talked, and every one was laughing at him.

"When you've quite finished speechifying, John," said Mrs.Wood, "perhaps you'll serve the berries and pass the cream and sugar Do you get yellow cream like this in the village, Mr.Maxwell ?" "No, Mrs.Wood," he said; "ours is a much paler yellow," and then there was a great tinkling of china, and passing of dishes, and talking and laughing, and no one noticed that I was not in my usual place in the hall.

I could not get over my dread of the green creature, and I had crept under the table, so that if it came out and frightened Miss Laura, I could jump up and catch it.
When tea was half over, she gave a little cry.

I sprang up on her lap, and there, gliding over the table toward her, was the wicked-looking green thing.